On the Feast of the Holy Family, will ANY mention be made of pro marriage / family legislation backed by the USCCB?

Information about these USCCB-supported pieces of federal legislation should be available in every parish and proclaimed from every pulpit....

• Marriage and Religious Freedom Act (HR 3133 / S 1808): "would bar the federal government from discriminating against individuals and organizations based upon their religiously-motivated belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage....The Act is needed because of growing intolerance toward religiously-minded individuals and organizations who want to live by their conviction that marriage is the union of one man and one woman or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage" (http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/promotion-and-defense-of-marriage/marriage-and-religious-freedom-act-backgrounder.cfm) 
  
  
  
• State Marriage Defense Act  (HR 3829 / S 2024): "various agencies of the Executive Branch have decided to use a 'place of celebration' rule rather than a 'place of domicile' rule when determining the validity of a marriage for purposes of federal rights, benefits, and privileges....The effect, if not the intent, of this choice is to circumvent state laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman....[The State Marriage Defense Act would require] the federal government...to defer to the marriage law of the state in which people actually reside when determining whether they are married for purposes of federal law" (Archbishop Cordileone, 1/10/14).
  
  
  
  
• Marriage Protection Amendment (HJ Res 51): "The amendment would secure in law throughout the country the basic truth known to reason that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Preserving this elemental truth is necessary for the good of society at large and for the good of children who deserve the love of both a mother and a father, neither of whom is expendable. Indeed, marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any child conceived of their union. Federal court opinions that essentially redefine marriage to be merely a state recognized arrangement of intimate adult relationships ignore the truth about marriage, which deserves the highest protection in law" (Archbishop Cordileone, 2/19/14).
  
  
  
• Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2014  (HR 5285 / S 2706): "in recent years, some religious child welfare providers in our country...have been and continue to be excluded from carrying out adoption and foster care services because these providers believe that children deserve to be placed with a married mother and father. The Inclusion Act would remedy this unjust discrimination by enabling all providers to serve the needs of parents and children in a manner consistent with the providers’ religious beliefs and moral convictions" (Archbishop Cordileone, Archbishop Lori, and Archbishop Wenski, 7/31/14)
  

  

  
  
  

  The response, thus far, from the Pennsylvania delegation in Washington, D.C.

  

"The future of humanity passes by way of the family" (St. Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio).